However, the father’s satisfactory efforts at reconciling his relationship with his son fails and creates more distance between the two. The Father’s first attempt to reconciliate with Johnny is by purchasing him a new scout uniform to replace Johnny’s existing uniform. As John says “I don't want those goon’s down at the church thinking i'm too cheap to buy him one.” (68) Johnny quickly realizes he was not buying the scout uniform for him but for his own reputation. Johnny felt that John was being selfish and instantly saw through John’s fake act. This is why he wasn’t impressed or excited when his father mentioned the uniform. Another poor effort at reconciliation was when he made an inappropriate joke with the scoutmaster and Mr. Redpath. …show more content…
“[Has] there always been something between himself and the boy that neither of them understood? “No.” he said to himself. “No, it’s your fault. It’s always been your fault.” (76) The Father realizes how oblivious he has been towards Johnny’s needs. It has always been his fault for not being there for Johnny. He does not know a single thing that is currently happening in Johnny's life. John was blind to how important this banquet was to his son. All John did by going was make the tension between father and son grow with a negative impact. His lack of effort towards reconciliation, actions of betrayal and embarrassment are the reason he is at fault. He can not blame Johnny for his actions because having a drunk father who lifts you in the air and then nearly knocks over a table is embarrassing. I believe the point at which John begins to have his epiphany is when he was talking to Johnny on the way to the banquet. “As they passes the schoolyard he asked the boy how the softball team was doing.... He [realizes] the he [did not] even know what position his own son played, or even the name of the team.” (68) (69) That makes it clear that John does not attend any of his sons games. That means he is not getting much attention from his father. His father showed signs of marginalization towards Johnnys needs but seems like he has changed by the end of the
Not long after Johnny’s father passed, Johnny traveled down to Stanardsville to deliver cider to a local store there. Jeb, a teamster from Stanardsville, told Johnny about a wagon train planning to bring food into Richmond.“The pay will be mighty good ‘cause there’s a risk to it.” Jeb told Johnny (page 44, paragraph 4) Johnny was immediately interested because most Confederate or Rebel families didn’t have much to get by with during the Civil War due to the lack of crops and
He wants to get revenge against the Confederate soldiers and this motivates him to join the Union army. He is inspired when he sees a military parade and a friend of his brother, or so he believe in the power of the mind. That would be a perfect solution to his problems. at home and a way to punish those responsible for his brother’s death. He had admired Johnny greatly and felt the only answer was to sneak into the army.
After Susanna leaves Johnny and Raintree country, she quickly realizes that she needs Johnny in her life as a paternal figure, so she deceives him into marriage by faking a pregnancy. Due to her mental instability, Susanna believes that she finally found another father-figure in Johnny after her father died, so therefore, she will do anything to trap Johnny into a life with her. Additionally, since she craves Johnny`s attention similar to a child, Susanna does not want to disappoint Johnny and goes as far as changing her ideals on slavery by ridding herself of slaves simply to placate to Johnny`s wishes. Moreover, towards the conclusion of the film, when Neil encourages Johnny to run for public office, Johnny is unable to as he must take of his unstable wife, causing Susanna`s worst nightmare comes true: disappointing her “father”. As any child would, Susanna yearns to gain back her father`s trust, so she attempts to fix her their relationship by finding the raintree Johnny searched for in his youth. In the end, Johnny`s rejection of Susanna as a “daughter” caused her to commit suicide, since she was devastated by losing two of her fathers. As a result, the film portrays mentally unstable people as immature and unable to live independent lives.
In the beginning when John and Owen were eleven, they were both on the same baseball team. The one time Owen was allowed to bat he hit the ball and the ball hit John’s mother. She died that instant and then later Owen said, “GOD HAS TAKEN YOUR MOTHER. MY HANDS WERE THE INSTRUMENT. GOD HAS TAKEN MY HANDS. I AM GOD'S INSTRUMENT.” The meaning of this quote is that Owen looks at himself as the murderer of John’s mom. This hurts John knowing his best friend says he killed John’s mother. Also because John does not know who his father is and is now without parents. However John still remains friends with him. This is most likely because John does not believe that Owen is responsible for this tragedy.
Boom! Johnny drops to the floor. Kids are screaming. This is when Johnny is a hero for the second time in the story, The Outsiders. Johnny is a hero because he saved kids from a fire and Johnny saved Pony from dying.
The adult John comes to civilized society as an experiment by Marx and Mond to see how a "savage" would adapt to civilization. Frankly, he does not adapt very well. He is appalled by the lifestyle and ideas of civilized people, and gets himself into a lot of trouble by denouncing civilization. He loves Lenina very much, but gets very upset at her when she wants to have sex with him. He physically attacks her, and from that point on does not want to have anything to do with her. When his mother dies, he interferes with the "death conditioning" of children by being sad. Finally, his frustrations with the civilized world become too much for him and he decides to take action. He tries to be a sort of a Messiah to a group of Deltas, trying to free them from the effect of soma. He tells them only the truth, but it is not the truth that the Deltas have been conditioned to believe, so to them it is a violent lie and they begin to cause a riot. When the riot is subdued, John is apprehended and taken to have a talk with Mustapha Mond.
First, Johnny and Dally both die tragically after making unwise decisions in their lives. Johnny died while rescuing children from a burning church and in the eyes of the rescued children’s parents was a hero. But reluctantly this was not the case. In fact, Johnny had just killed a rival member from the Soc’s in self-defense. After which Johnny tells Ponyboy “‘I killed him,’ he said slowly. ‘I killed that boy.’ As Bob, the handsome Soc was lying there in the moonlight a dark pool growing
It was Scout’s first day of school and it was starting out rough. She had been told that she could not read properly and that she needed to stop reading with Atticus. She was miserable and did not want to be involved with school anymore. One day, a little boy named Walter Cunningham did not have his lunch money. The Cunningham’s are very poor and would not take anything that they could not pay back. Miss Caroline, a new teacher in town, had offered Walter a quarter for his lunch but he would not take it. Miss Caroline kept trying to convince Walter to take the quarter but he refused to. You could see the embarrassment on poor Walter Cunningham’s face. Finally, Scout stood up out of her chair and said, “Miss Caroline, he’s a Cunningham” (20). Scout thought she had made it pretty clear why Walter would not take the quarter. Unfortunately, Miss Caroline was so new in town that she had no idea who the Cunninghams were, forcing Scout to go into more detail with her explanation, “That’s okay, ma’am, you’ll get to know all the county folks after a while. The Cunninghams never took anything they can’t pay back-no church ...
What's a hero? A hero isn't just a person with a super cool suit and fun powers, or a human who beats up villains and saves the world. A hero can be anybody and from the book “The Outsiders” by the author S.E. Hinton. Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally are often described as heroes because of some things that they did in the book. Ponyboy is a hero because he saved children from the inside of a burning church, Johnny is a hero because of his want to help other people. Finally, Dally is a hero by his kind actions towards Johnny. These three Greasers are both brave and courageous.
His father never really cared for Johnny Cash. His father liked his brother Jack most of all. His brother Jack was right above Johnny in age. Johnny loved him and they were very close. One day Jack was going to go work in the shop class at school to help make extra money for the family. Jack used a large saw that the safety had been taken off. In an unfortunate accident the saw cut Jack right in the gut and ribs. A few days later Jack died and this made Johnny very sad and it would forever change Johnny’s life. Jack was always the one that JR’s father went after when he was drunk. Now it was up to Johnny to become the strong sibling. After his brother’s death Johnny’s father said that he wished that it would have been Johnny who had died that day. This was a tragedy that Johnny would never quite get over.
I understand that I am going to attempt to keep Johnny out of jail because what he had done in my perspective was self defense. This happened in The Outsiders book. Hinton, S. E. The Outsiders. New York: Viking, 1967. Print. I feel that you may think that Johnny is guilty of homicide because he had killed Bob during the evening by the park. He had not attempted to kill him, he was using self defence, as the novel had stated in chapter 4, Johnny warns the socs that showed up that they were in a part of town that they were not supposed to be in but the socs ignored the warning and still provoked the fight. Later in chapter 4 it also informs us that the socs were starting to drown Ponyboy so Johnny had used his switchblade without really meaning to kill anyone. Johnny has informed me that he and Ponyboy Curtis were walking in the park in the evening and that a vehicle had shown up and some boys had gotten out and threatened them. These boys had pulled out a knife and threatened to use it against them. One of the boys then started to assault Johnny and another attacked Ponyboy. The one attacking Ponyboy then decided to move him to a fountain and tried to drown him. When Johnny realized what they were doing he had turned to them and pulled out a knife and flung at them without meaning to kill Bob. But keep in mind that Bob was drowning Ponyboy so this act was used in defense. I feel that Johnny is innocent because he was using self defense, but he should not have ran from the crime scene. Another thing in chapter 4 was that a little while later when Ponyboy came conscious again Johnny said, "I had to. They were drowning you, Pony. “They might have killed you. And they had a blade... they were gonna beat me up...." I found this informat...
A big "celebration" dinner was planned for John's going away. All of his family and close friends came to enjoy good food and fellowship before leaving in the morning. His parents were to drive him to the airport where he would fly to the army base. The same base his father trained at many years ago. John's father was proud of his son, but also a little concerned, for he realized the seriousness of this war.
Even though he was a skilled worker, he was proud, and full of arrogance. But after his terrible tragedy, his rude character died in the birth and death room, and Johnny was reborn as a more patient and caring person. He still won't take pity from anyone, but on the inside he is probably crying out for help. Although he has no one to talk to, he does have special talents that help keep him going strong.
...ssion and intrusiveness. John’s lack of having an open mind to his wife’s thoughts and opinions and his constant childish like treatment of his wife somehow emphasizes this point, although, this may not have been his intention. The narrator felt strongly that her thoughts and feelings were being disregarded and ignored as stated by the narrator “John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him” (Gilman 115), and she shows her despise of her husband giving extra care to what he considers more important cases over his wife’s case with a sarcastic notion “I am glad my case is not serious!” (Gilman 115). It is very doubtful that John is the villain of the story, his good intentions towards doing everything practical and possible to help his wife gain her strength and wellbeing is clear throughout the story.
Is there really a hero in The Outsiders. A hero is someone who saved the life of one or many people by risking their own life. Johnny is one of those people. Johnny is a person who is very shy until he starts standing up for himself and does things he never thought he would do. Johnny is the hero because he didn’t just save the life of one but of multiple people,he would do anything for his buddies, and he listens and comprehends people that is a real hero.